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Roosevelt, Theodore. The Wilderness Hunter: Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains (New Library Edition). G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1893.

Price: US$44.95 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The covers and spine have moderate wear and there is light soiling to the page edges. Linscott A. Hall Company "C" is written on the front paste-down and there is some underlining and marginal notes scattered through the book in pencil. The front hinge has begun to crack and the rear hinge is cracked and there are several pages with bent corner tips. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Emily's Books, Brainerd, MN, U.S.A.

ROOSEVELT, Theodore. The Wilderness Hunter. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1893.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Description: Frontispiece with tissue guard plus 23 full-page and numerous text illustrations by Frederick Remington, A.B. Frost, Henry Sandham and C. Harry Eaton. Original publisher's decorated cloth with an antelope head in gilt on the front cover, spine somewhat darkened, otherwise a very nice copy. First edition, first issue (with chapter headpieces printed in brown) of Roosevelt's splendid account of his Western adventures. He starts with a description of the American west, with details of its land, pioneers and settlers. Readers are mesmerized with tales of hunting on the Great Plains, the Badlands and the Rocky Mountains that only Roosevelt can weave. Roosevelt (1858-1919), twenty-sixth president of the United States, was famed for his service as Colonel of the Rough Riders and his charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War. He received the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any political office he held.

Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.

ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Wilderness Hunter, The. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893, 1893.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Description: "In vain the speeding or shyness; In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods." (Walt Whitman) ROOSEVELT, Theodore. The Wilderness Hunter. An account of the big game of the United States and it's chase with horse, hound, and rifle. Illustrated. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. First edition, first issue (with chapter headpieces printed in brown). Octavo (9 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches; 235 x 150 mm.). [xvi], 472 pp. Twent-four photogravure plates (including frontispiece). Bound for G.B. Putnam's Sons NewYork, ca. 1893. Three quarter tan calf over marbled boards. Spine with five shallow raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, two green morocco labels lettered in gilt, matching marbled endpapers, all edges marbled green. Slight rubbing to extremities otherwise a fine copy. Early neat ink inscription dated "Dec- 25-1895" on verso of the frontispiece. With the armorial bookplate of Ingle Barr on front paste-down. Theodore Roosevelt's splendid account of his Western adventures. He starts with a description of the American west, with details of its land, pioneers and settlers. Readers are mesmerized with tales of hunting on the Great Plains, the Badlands and the Rocky Mountains that only Roosevelt can weave. Roosevelt (1858-1919), twenty-sixth president of the United States, was famed for his service as Colonel of the Rough Riders and his charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War. He received the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any political office he held.

Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.

Theodore Roosevelt. The Wilderness Hunter. G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1893.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Superb Copy Fine in Reddish Cloth Rare In This Condition First Edition (1893) Ink Name. Excellent Copy of This Great Roosevelt Classic. Beautiful Copy.

Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Wilderness Hunter: An Account of the Big Game of the United States and its Chase With Horse, Hound and a Rifle. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Tight binding, solid tan lightly soiled boards with brown lettering and gilt antelope to front, small ding to front board, gilt lettering with crossed pistol and knife to spine strip, tissue protected frontispiece, clean, unmarked pages throughout. 1st edition.

Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.

Roosevelt, Theodore. The Wilderness Hunter; An Account Of The Big Game Of The United States And Its Chase With Horse, Hound and Rifle. G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1893.

Price: US$5800.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Quarto, xvi, 472pp. Publisher's original olive buckram, title in gilt on spine, gilt illustration on front cover. Soiling and rubbing to the cloth, as often happens with this edition. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to front pastedown endpaper. Uncut edges, gilt along top edge. Some leaves remain unopened. Light foxing to rear endpapers, occasional foxing in the last two chapters, not affecting the text. Both hinges showing some wear, but text block is solid. Frontispiece and twenty-three illustrated plates by A.B. Frost, Henry Sandham, J. Carter Beard, C. Harry Eaton, and Frederic Remington. From a limited edition of two hundred signed copies, this being number 43. The book is signed by Theodore Roosevelt on the limitation page. (Cole & Vail, A13c) A scarce limited edition copy. This limited edition is identical to the first edition, first issue, but with the addition of the limitation page signed by Roosevelt. It is called the second issue since it was released a few months after the first issue, in the Autumn of 1893. Theodore Roosevelt served as the 26th President of the United States. He was a prolific author, writing more than 18 books during his lifetime, beginning with The Naval War of 1812 in 1882. His other notable works include The Winning of the West, African Game Trails, and The Rough Riders. The Wilderness Hunter, published in 1893, follows the young politician's exploits in North Dakota as a ranchman. Roosevelt's time in the western frontier inspired his conservationist policies and his founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.

Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.

Roosevelt, Theodore. The Wilderness Hunter: An Account Of The Big Game Of The United States And Its Chase With Horse, Hound And Rifle.. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1893.

Price: US$9500.00 + shipping

Description: Signed limited first edition, one of only 200 numbered copies, signed by Theodore Roosevelt. Quarto, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front panel. Frontispiece plus twenty-three full page plates by Frederic Remington, A. B. Frost I, James Carter Beard, Henry Sandham, and Charles Henry Eaton. In very good condition with some light toning to the extremities. Scarce and desirable. When his first wife died in 1884, Theodore Roosevelt withdrew to his cattle ranch in western Dakota. There, he wrote Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (1885) and Thomas Hart Benton (1887) and began work on The Winning of the West (1889). He also penned this account of big-game hunting in the United States, with chapters on hunting lore, hunting with hounds, hunting the grizzly, and hunting from the ranch.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Roosevelt, Theodore. The Wilderness Hunter: An Account Of The Big Game Of The United States And Its Chase With Horse, Hound And Rifle.. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1893.

Price: US$12500.00 + shipping

Description: Signed limited first edition, one of only 200 numbered copies, signed by Theodore Roosevelt. Quarto, bound in original full red morocco by Putnam's deluxe issue binding, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front panel. Frontispiece plus twenty-three full page plates by Frederic Remington, A. B. Frost I, James Carter Beard, Henry Sandham, and Charles Henry Eaton. In near fine condition, bookplate. Housed in a custom clamshell box. When his first wife died in 1884, Theodore Roosevelt withdrew to his cattle ranch in western Dakota. There, he wrote Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (1885) and Thomas Hart Benton (1887) and began work on The Winning of the West (1889). He also penned this account of big-game hunting in the United States, with chapters on hunting lore, hunting with hounds, hunting the grizzly, and hunting from the ranch.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy ROOSEVELT). THE WILDERNESS HUNTER. AN ACCOUNT OF THE BIG GAME OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITS CHASE WITH HORSE HOUND, AND RIFLE Inscribed to the Best American He Ever Knew. G. P. Putnam's Sons (1893), New York & London, 1893.

Price: US$25000.00 + shipping

Description: Small quarto (6" x 9-1/4") in the original gilt-decorated cream cloth with brown lettering on the front cover; xvi, 472 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece plate, drawings at the chapter heads and tails, and 23 full-page plates by A. B. Frost, Henry Sandham, J. Carter Beard, Frederick Remington, and Harry Eaton. This trade edition preceded the limited edition of 200 copies, per a "Notice" that is tipped in before the frontispiece announcing that the limited edition is in preparation. A monumental Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To my beloved friend,/Jacob A. Riis;/may you enjoy the/northwoods as much as I/enjoyed the great plains/& the Rockies!/Theodore Roosevelt/July 1901." The number "14" has been inserted after the word "July," possibly by Roosevelt. Laid in is a pass made out to Riis for a Roosevelt Reception aboard the U.S. Revenue Steamer Androscoggin on 18 June 1910. Of Jacob Riis, his lifelong friend, Roosevelt remarked in his AUTOBIOGRAPHY: "I am tempted to call [him] the best American I ever knew." In 1904 Riis published a biography of his good friend titled THEODORE ROOSEVELT: THE CITIZEN. Jacob Riis, among the most dedicated advocates for America's oppressed and downtrodden, arrived in New York from his native Denmark at the age of 21 in 1870. A pioneer in photojournalism, Riis photographed and wrote about the slums and tenements of a New York in the dawn of a new century. Riis came to Roosevelt's attention through his 1890 book HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES. As Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, Roosevelt accompanied Riis on his evening travels through the slums and witnessed firsthand the inhumane conditions endured by many of New York's inhabitants. In his 1901 book MAKING OF AN AMERICAN, Riis wrote of Roosevelt: "It could not have been long after I wrote HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES that he came to the Evening Sun office one day looking for me. I was out and he left his card merely writing on the back of it that he had read my book and had 'come to help'. That was all, and it tells the whole story of the man. I loved him from the day I first saw him; nor ever in all the years that have passed has he failed of the promise made then. No one ever helped as he did. For two years, we were brothers on Mulberry Street." Roosevelt, in turn, wrote of Riis after his death: "It is difficult for me to write of Jacob Riis only from the public standpoint. He was one of my truest and closest friends. I have ever prized the fact that once, in speaking of me, he said, 'since I met him he has been my brother.' I have not only admired and respected him beyond measure, but I have loved him dearly . and I mourn him as if he were one of my own family." Covers soiled and marked, tight. Spine darkened, gilt still strong, with some chipping at the spine tips. Good or better and an Association Copy of the first order

Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.